Colin Wilson, Spider World: the Magician

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1992

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Spider World: The Magician

(1992) is Colin Wilson’s nineteenth novel and the third in a science fantasy quartet that, as a whole, aims to provide his deepest and most extensive imaginative enactment of his evolutionary existentialist philosophy. The first volume of the tetralogy,

Spider World: The Tower

(1987), opened by showing its 16-year-old protagonist, Niall (pronounced “Nile”’, like the river), living with his family in a burrow on the edge of a desert and constantly threatened by the huge telepathic death spiders who, in the twenty-fifth century, rule the earth. The

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entries on the two earlier volumes traced how, by a series of exciting exploits, complex ethical and philosophical challenges, and “incredible twists of fortune”, Niall, at the end of…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Spider World: the Magician". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 May 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24002, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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